Guantanamo Bay prisoners are being “tortured” by RT

“It’s funny that RT is nice to Trump and doesn’t talk about Guantanamo anymore.”

The prison for terrorism suspects at the American Guantanamo Bay base has long been the subject of criticism by human rights activists, American liberals, and pro-Kremlin media, which at every opportunity refer to it as an example of human rights violations in the United States (while keeping silent, of course, about the practices of treating terrorism suspects in Russia itself or Syria). Recently, however, events have taken an unexpected turn.

The Daily Beast has obtained correspondence from one of the Guantanamo detainees, which contains truly harrowing details of the detention regime: “for the past two years, the only English-language news channel available for viewing by those who have been through secret CIA prisons is RT, a Kremlin channel that loves to show anything that makes America look bad.”

In March, in a letter to his lawyer, Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani wrote: “The only Western news available to us is news from Moscow.”

It would seem - live and be happy, but for some reason al-Afghani is dissatisfied (and hints that other prisoners are not happy with such a media diet): “It’s funny that RT treats Trump well and no longer talks about Guantanamo... This is all fake news. Propaganda, not news.”

Afghani himself claims that in the past he was subjected to real torture in secret CIA prisons (we are talking about the events of 2007, even before the presidency of Barack Obama, who condemned torture and called for closing Guantanamo - which, however, failed to do). Now, however, he, by his own admission, is “terrified” by RT news. In the absence of other news channels, he asked the prison administration to play sports programs for him.

American officials do not comment on why prisoners, including, for example, one of the alleged “architects” of the September 11 terrorist attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are shown RT. According to an administration official, however, Guantanamo detainees can choose which channels they want to watch from the available supply.